{"id":444296,"date":"2017-12-06T14:21:29","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T14:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/06\/free-shs-cause-of-kumaca-deaths-mutawakilu-adam\/"},"modified":"2017-12-06T14:21:29","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T14:21:29","slug":"free-shs-cause-of-kumaca-deaths-mutawakilu-adam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/06\/free-shs-cause-of-kumaca-deaths-mutawakilu-adam\/","title":{"rendered":"Free SHS cause of KUMACA deaths \u2013 Mutawakilu Adam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Wednesday,  6 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>3news.com <\/p>\n<p>2017-12-06<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/52141903.295.jpg\" alt=\"Kumasi Academy Calm\" title=\"Kumasi Academy Calm\" width=\"295\" height=\"177\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Test results from Noguchi have ruled out meningitis as the cause of multiple death in the school<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1512570089_503_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> The Member of Parliament for Damongo Constituency in the Northern Region has blamed the mysterious deaths at Kumasi Academy Senior High School (KUMACA) to overcrowding as a result of the Free Senior High School policy by the government.<\/p>\n<p>Mutawakilu Adam said the issue is a cause to worry because student population has increased leading to the spread of the illness and subsequent deaths.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Health, Kweku Agyemang Manu, is expected to brief Parliament on Friday on happenings at the school which have seen a total of 11 students die \u2013 since April \u2013 following a suspected outbreak of meningitis The situation has created fear and panic in the school. Technical teams from the Ministry of Health and World Health Organization (WHO) were dispatched to the school on Tuesday to investigate the cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the issue on TV3\u2019s New Day on Wednesday, the MP for Damongo said: \u201cThe overcrowding [in the school] might have caused the deaths\u201d. \u201cIt is an epidemic and it is a cause for worry and by now, the Ghana Health Service should have set up an emergency unit in the school. We needed to have an emergency unit there for quick response.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The National Democratic Congress (NDC) legislator added: \u201cIn the state of panic and fear\u2026you don\u2019t know whether it is as a result of congestion. So it is good parents went in to take their wards. If you have your ward under your care, you can take him to any proper hospital for treatments\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He said the development will have a \u201cpsychological effect\u201d on both parents and students. But the MP for Sekondi Constituency in the Western Region, Andrew Kofi Egyapa Mercer, who was also on the programme, disagreed with his colleague on his assertions that the illness was as a result of overcrowding in the school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt cannot be the case that the issue is related to overcrowding due to the free SHS. It is only better that we leave it to the professionals to conduct their investigations so that students can go back to the school after the closure,\u201d the MP suggested.<\/p>\n<p>The New Patriotic Party (NPP) MP said even though parents are in a dilemma, the decision taken by the health authorities to vaccinate the students before they leave the school is the best. \u201cThe parents are saddened with a dilemma. It is a huge dilemma but the decision by the school authorities and health experts have taken is the best,\u201d Mr. Mercer added.<\/p>\n<p><b><\/b>\u2018Psychological trauma\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A Senior Lecturer at the University of Education, Winneba, in the Central Region, Dr. Ahmed Jinapor, was furious about the lukewarm habit of leaders in the country. He said it has become a norm in the country that whenever an issue occurs, a committee is set up but its reports are not implemented. \u201cWe are in the state of confusion because the issue started since March 2017. What has been the report? Did the people go to sleep? That is our nature,\u201d the lecturer stressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe psychological trauma the students and teachers are going through is huge. They are still in a state of panic so let\u2019s try and get this illness contained because they made contacts between teachers and the students\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Lecturer does not understand why the school is situated in the heart of Kumasi yet such illness has not been able to be contained since March this year. \u201cKUMACA is in good condition.<\/p>\n<p>It has good and best infrastructure. It is not Damongo SHS. It is not Bongo SHS. Look at where it is situated. 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